We now bear the fruits of
Wizards' grand keikaku.
So back when they launched the 5e version of their Spelljammer setting, they've gotten a bit of a shitstorm for turning monkey aliens that were supposedly racist caricatures of black people into
more racist caricatures of black people. Almost like they
wanted backlash or something.
Not any more, my friends. Not any more:
The studio’s new process mandates that every word, illustration, and map must be reviewed by multiple outside cultural consultants prior to publication.
A shadow cabal of SJWs will decide what you are allowed to put into your book.
That is until they fuck up as well and everything becomes even
more Draconian.
While the D&D team is racially, ethnically, gender, and cognitively diverse, we don’t want our marginalized employees to be burdened with the task of reviewing content for cultural competency. That’s why we leverage the expertise of outside cultural consultants.
You could've just said that your actual employees are busy with more important shit. The way you write this just makes it sound weird, like as if you consider it only natural to keep pestering your Asian-American diversity hire with sensitivity questions about samurai.
And WTF is "cognitively diverse"? Is that the new phrase for "neurodiverse" aka "fucking retarded"?
The new inclusion-review process applies to not only products in development but also reprints. In other words, every reprint is an opportunity to conduct a new inclusion review on previously published content.
This isn't particularly new - several 5e products had entire paragraphs erased for "problematic content" - but bloody hell, I sure hope they won't to reprints of older edition books for the upcoming anniversary.
Autism attracts more autism. Sooner or later, an internet nobody will attract the exact kind of fans - and detractors - he deserves.
-Yours Truly
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